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This is the ninth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying
Wall Street. The police barricades that have been surrounding the
Stock Exchange help.

Sunday has been decreed, once again, a day of rest. We didn't march.
We have made a new world, a new city within the city. We are working
on a new sky for where the towers are now.

Throughout the day our sisters and brothers arrested yesterday came
back home to Liberty Plaza. They greeted the new faces that have
joined us here. They shared their stories of imprisonment, of medical
care denied and delayed. We welcomed them and listened.

We had visitors.

Immortal Technique

Reverend Billy

Yesterday was a day of action, and today was one of healing,
discussion, and preparation. Working groups met in small circles
around the plaza, planning their work and preparing to report back to
the General Assembly as a whole. The Assembly debated, as always, the
hows and whys of being here. In the morning, we talked about the
occupations rising up in cities around the United States, joining us
in what we're doing, as people begin rediscovering the power in
themselves against the powers looming over them in buildings. We
talked of calling more people to do what we're doing. In the evening
we talked about staying, or leaving, and what this space means for us.
We love it, we're almost addicted to it, but what we are is more than
this.

We strolled around the plaza. We wrote songs with new friends. We
argued about politics with each other, but not a politics of puppets:
a politics for us. We fed the hungry and gave sleeping bags to the
cold. We roughhoused. We talked to the world on our livestream. Most
of all, we kept on organizing ourselves. Our library grew.

Drums blared for hours into the night when the Assembly wasn't in
session, until the time came for quiet. The drummers ended by reciting
from the Principles of Solidarity we approved in Friday's General
Assembly, in the rain. Before the police lined along the Broadway side
of the plaza, they cried together, "We are daring to imagine a new
socio-political and economic alternative that offers greater
possibility of equality." And more.

This is the eighth communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street.

On September 24th, 2011, the lie revealed itself. We live in a world where only 1 percent of us are protected and served. The following is graphic.

This is a video of a white-collar police officer macing penned-in young women:

This is a photo of a white-collar police officer reaching over a barricade and ripping a young woman's hair out:

This is a video that shows a white-collar police officer tackle a young man for no reason (thirty-six seconds in).
Later, it shows a different white-collar police officer shoving two young women and a young man for no reason (one minute and two seconds in):

This is a photo of two white-collar police officers arresting a young woman for filming them:

Here is a picture from the article, note the other two white-collar officers holding him up:

This is a video from September 20th of two white-collar police officers throwing a protester face first towards the ground:

We demand that Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly resigns.

We demand that this man is charged for maliciously spraying protesters and blue-collar police.

We demand jail time - for this man and others like him.
We demand that no blue-collar police is charged for the crimes of their supervisor.

We demand that Mayor Bloomberg address our General Assembly and apologize for what has occurred.

A message to blue-collar police:
Do not do what you are told. We are peaceful and you know this. We offer you coffee in the morning and water in the day. You always refuse and we know that's because they told you to.
Speak of the crimes of your supervisors. We will help you. We are expressing the same frustration that you feel. You are the 99 percent. Join us. Join our conversation.

We have at least four arrests today during a community march, a fifth arrest is suspected but police will not confirm.

A legal observer attempting to contact an arrested member was not allowed to due to “an emergency situation,” we are currently unsure of what this means. At least one arrest was due to a protester taking photographs. At least one protester's possessions have not been returned.

Please call the first precinct, central booking and the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information and urge them to release these peaceful protesters.

UPDATE:We are now receiving reports that at least 80 protesters have been arrested. The National Lawyer's Guild puts the number at around one hundred. Liberty square is currently full with an ongoing discussion on how to respond to this unprecedented level of police aggression. Police are currently surrounding the square. There is nearly one police officer for every two protesters.

Earlier today we had reports of police kettling protesters with large orange net, using tasers, at least five protesters have been maced.

UPDATE:@pulseofprotest was posting live from a police van. It appears as though he has stopped.